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In Old Chicago is a 1938 American disaster musical drama film directed by Henry King. The screenplay by Sonya Levien and Lamar Trotti was based on the Niven Busch story, "We the O'Learys". The film is a fictionalized account about the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 and stars Alice Brady as Mrs. O'Leary , the owner of the cow which started the fire ...
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In Old Chicago: Directed by Henry King. With Tyrone Power, Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Alice Brady. The O'Leary brothers--honest Jack and roguish Dion--become powerful figures, and eventually rivals, in Chicago on the eve of its Great Fire.
- Henry King
- 3 min
In 1854, Irish immigrant Patrick O'Leary, traveling by covered wagon with his wife and three young sons to Chicago, is killed when he races a train and the wagon crashes down an embankment. Before he dies he tells his sons Jack, Dion and Bob to build and grow with Chicago, which he predicts will one day be the hub of the country.
- Henry King
- Tyrone Power
May 22, 2019 · 717 subscribers. Subscribed. 1.5K. 230K views 4 years ago. SDC FILMS Restoration Project. In 1854, the patriarch Patrick O'Leary of the O'Leary family dies in an accident nearby Chicago while...
- 111 min
- 238.9K
- Kenneth Howard Smith
In 1871 Chicago, honest lawyer Jack (Don Ameche) and his reckless saloon owner brother Dion (Tyrone Power) are two very different men attracted to the same beautiful singer, Belle (Alice Faye).
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- Tyrone Power
- Henry King
- History, Drama
In Old Chicago. Summaries. The O'Leary brothers--honest Jack and roguish Dion--become powerful figures, and eventually rivals, in Chicago on the eve of its Great Fire. In 1854, Patrick O'Leary, patriarch of the O'Leary family, dies in an accident nearby Chicago while traveling the Midwestern prairie.
179M subscribers. Subscribed. 72. Tyrone Power and Don Ameche star in this acclaimed film about greed, corruption and politics in late 1800s Chicago. While Jack O'Leary (Ameche) is elected mayor,...
